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Lame product description… To use these you connect them in a serial string and shift brightness and color information into them (as outlined in the docs). You don’t have direct control of (or need to worry about) forward voltage or PWM for brightness.

Yes, that’s a problem that occurs with even the most expensive crimpers… I take a pair of needle nose pliers (or better yet, duckbills) and gently bend the tabs parallel (just squeeze the tab end between the plier jaws). When crimped, the tabs should fold neatly over. The problem occurs when the tabs are splayed to the point that they (obviously) crush instead of bend…

Make sure it’s a dye-based negative. The little silver grains in silver based film (Tri-X, T-Max) will block infrared. Generally, if it’s negative film, and it’s developed using the C-41 process you’re good to go.

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